> On Jul 7, 2020, at 6:11 PM, Arvind Sankar <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jul 06, 2020 at 08:46:00PM -0700, Nick Terrell wrote:
>> From: Nick Terrell <[email protected]>
>>
>> * Adds the zstd cmd to scripts/Makefile.lib
>> * Adds the HAVE_KERNEL_ZSTD and KERNEL_ZSTD options
>>
>> Architecture specific support is still needed for decompression.
>>
>> diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.lib b/scripts/Makefile.lib
>> index 916b2f7f7098..d960f8815f87 100644
>> --- a/scripts/Makefile.lib
>> +++ b/scripts/Makefile.lib
>> @@ -413,6 +413,21 @@ quiet_cmd_xzkern = XZKERN $@
>> quiet_cmd_xzmisc = XZMISC $@
>> cmd_xzmisc = cat $(real-prereqs) | $(XZ) --check=crc32
>> --lzma2=dict=1MiB > $@
>>
>> +# ZSTD
>> +#
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> +# Appends the uncompressed size of the data using size_append. The .zst
>> +# format has the size information available at the beginning of the file
>> too,
>> +# but it's in a more complex format and it's good to avoid changing the part
>> +# of the boot code that reads the uncompressed size.
>> +# Note that the bytes added by size_append will make the zstd tool think
>> that
>> +# the file is corrupt. This is expected.
>> +
>> +quiet_cmd_zstd = ZSTD $@
>> +cmd_zstd = (cat $(filter-out FORCE,$^) | \
> ^^ should just be $(real-prereqs)
>> + zstd -19 && \
>> + $(call size_append, $(filter-out FORCE,$^))) > $@ || \
> ^^ size_append does not take arguments. It's used as just
> $(size_append) and will always output shell code to print the
> total size of $(real-prereqs) -- see other compressor command
> definitions.
Yeah, when I wrote this code, this was how the rest of the compressors were
implemented.
I noticed that they had all been updated when I was responding to Norbert Lange
earlier.
I will submit a v7 shortly with the updated command.
Thanks for the review,
Nick
